Deck 5: The Ancestors of Israel

Question 1

How do the Ugaritic texts and other Near Eastern documents influence our understanding of the ancestral narratives? What can these parallels tell us about the religion of the ancestors of Israel?

Answer 1

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Question 2

How does the Joseph narrative fit into the overall framework of Genesis? What themes are consistent with the rest of the ancestral narratives, and how is the Joseph cycle different? How can you explain these differences?

Answer 2

no answer

Question 3

Explain the value of form criticism for biblical scholarship. What textual problems or inconsistencies can it help to clarify? How does form criticism compare to source criticism?

Answer 3

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Question 4

How have scholars used the various names, titles, and epithets for God that appear in Genesis 12-50 to understand the religion of the ancestors? What can we learn about Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob's religious beliefs by analyzing the use of divine names in addition to statements about God/gods?

Question 5

Genealogies are an expression of relationships between groups.

Question 6

The phrase "be fruitful and multiply" is characteristic of the P source.

Question 7

The Israelites were the only ancient people to practice circumcision.

Question 8

JE is the source most concerned with the establishment of shrines.

Question 9

Dinah is the sister of Simeon and Levi.

Question 10

The Joseph narrative is corroborated by Egyptian evidence.

Question 11

The ancestral narrative in Genesis 12-50 is linked with the primeval history that precedes and the account of the Exodus that follows it by etiologies.

Question 12

Isaac is the founder of a shrine at Shechem.

Question 13

Simeon and Levi lose their inheritance because of Bilhah.

Question 14

"El" is a common word for God in the ancient Near East.

Question 15

Abraham's third wife was named:

A) Sarah
B) Keturah
C) Bilhah
D) Hagar

Question 16

Esau is the ancestor of the:

A) Edomites
B) Moabites
C) Canaanites
D) Ammonites

Question 17

The critical method that looks at small blocks of text to identify earlier
Stages of a text's development is called:

A) redaction criticism
B) tradition history
C) source criticism
D) form criticism

Question 18

Abraham departs from ________after his father's death.

A) Terah
B) Haran
C) Shechem
D) Megiddo

Question 19

Abraham sends a servant to his ancestral home to find a wife for his son because of the social convention known as:

A) monogamy
B) bigamy
C) exogamy
D) Endogamy

Question 20

All of the following are important locations in northern Israel except:

A) Jerusalem
B) Penuel
C) Bethel
D) Shechem

Question 21

The binding of Isaac is also called:

A) Melech
B) etiology
C) Aqedah
D) toledot

Question 22

The scholar who developed form criticism was:

A) Wellhausen
B) Gunkel
C) Kirkegaard
D) Schaeffer

Question 23

Jacob's remains are said to be interred in the ancestral tomb at ____________.

A) Hebron
B) Shechem
C) Beer Sheba
D) Jerusalem

Question 24

All of the following are portrayed as being descended from ancestors with sexually perverse morals except the:

A) Ammonites
B) Moabites
C) Ishmaelites
D) Philistines

Question 25

An ancient mound consisting of the accumulated deposits of successive human occupations is called a:

A) ras
B) Tell
C) midden
D) context

Question 26

Jacob's first wife was:

A) Leah
B) Rachel
C) Bilhah
D) Rebekah

Question 27

The period from the mid-seventeenth to the mid-sixteenth centuries bce during which Egypt was ruled by dynasties originally of Semitic origin is called the:

A) Hyksos Period
B) New Kingdom
C) Third Intermediate Period
D) Iron Age I

Question 28

Jacob's youngest son is:

A) Joseph
B) Dan
C) Zebulun
D) Benjamin

Question 29

All of the following are epithets for El in Genesis except:

A) Elyon
B) Olam
C) Roi
D) all of the above

Question 30

The sign of the covenant between God and Abraham was:

A) circumcision
B) a rainbow
C) land
D) the sabbath

Question 31

___________ received a revelation from Yahweh while pregnant and also initiated a scheme to get the inheritance for her favorite son.

A) Leah
B) Rebekah
C) Rachel
D) Sarah

Question 32

The foundation of the shrine at Beersheba is connected to both:

A) Isaac and Jacob
B) Abraham and Isaac
C) Abraham and Jacob
D) Jacob and Joseph

Question 33

___________ is a term often used in poetry for the northern kingdom of Israel as
A whole.

A) Manasseh
B) Judah
C) Ephraim
D) Dan

Question 34

The firstborn son of Jacob is:

A) Reuben
B) Judah
C) Simeon
D) Levi

Question 35

Isaac's oldest son is named___________.

Question 36

God's threefold promise includes__________, __________, and _________.

Question 37

The term el shadday means ___________________.

Question 38

The language of the texts discovered at Ras Shamra is called_________.

Question 39

Abraham's Egyptian wife is ________.

Question 40

Gad and Asher are sons of _________ and ___________.

Question 41

Joseph's two sons are _____________and ___________.

Question 42

Many elements of Genesis 12-50 have parallels in the Ugaritic epic__________.

Question 43

Isaac's wife was named ___________.

Question 44

Jacob's oldest son was___________.